London Elm Tree Books, 1981. 9 1/4"x12 3/4", landscape format. First edition. Thorburn's larger watercolor and oil paintings showing birds and mammals in their natural landscapes. 120pp, 52 colour plates with descriptions opposite, a few other illustrations in text; with lists of books illustrated by Thorburn, colour prints and proofs of his works, his pictures exhibited at the Royal Academy, and his RSPB Christmas card designs; illustrated endpapers. Hardback / hard cover: tan boards, backstrip lettered in gilt. Fine copy in fine unclipped dust jacket. Thorburn is the best of best Natural History Artists.